Unofficial Rose (Murdoch Iris)(Paperback / softback)

Unofficial Rose (Murdoch Iris)(Paperback / softback)

After his wife's death, Hugh contemplates returning to his former mistress. Randall's young daughter, Miranda, is adored by her Australian cousin Penn, but has attachments elsewhere. Impelled by affection, lust and illusion, these characters search for love within a tightly woven

Under The Net - Vintage Classics Murdoch Series (Murdoch Iris)(Paperback / softback)

Sea, The Sea - Vintage Classics Murdoch Series (Murdoch Iris)(Paperback / softback)

Fairly Honourable Defeat (Murdoch Iris)(Paperback / softback)

In this dark comedy of errors, Iris Murdoch portrays the mischief wrought by Julius, a cynical intellectual who decides to demonstrate through a Machiavellian experiment how easily loving couples, caring friends, and devoted siblings can betray their

Bell - Vintage Classics Murdoch Series (Murdoch Iris)(Paperback / softback)

Charming, indolent Dora arrives in their midst, and half-unwittingly conjures these submerged things to the surface. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY SARAH PERRYVINTAGE CLASSICS MURDOCH: Funny, subversive, fearless and fiercely intelligent, Iris Murdoch was one of the great writers of the twentieth

The Sovereignty of Good (Murdoch Iris)(Paperback)

Iris Murdoch once observed: 'philosophy is often a matter of finding occasions on which to say the obvious'. What was obvious to Murdoch, and to all those who read her work, is that Good transcends everything - even God. Throughout her distinguished and prolific writing career, she explored

Under The Net (Murdoch Iris)(Paperback / softback)

Iris Murdoch's first novel is set in a part of London where struggling writers rub shoulders with successful bookies, and film starlets with frantic philosophers. Jake is captivated by a majestic philosopher, Hugo Belfounder, whose profound and inconclusive reflections give the book its title -

The Sovereignty of Good (Murdoch Iris)(Paperback)

Iris Murdoch was one of the great philosophers and novelists of the twentieth century and The Sovereignty of Good is her most important and enduring philosophical work. She argues that philosophy has focused, mistakenly, on what it is right to do rather than good to be and that only by restoring

Sandcastle - Vintage Classics Murdoch Series (Murdoch Iris)(Paperback / softback)

'It's all dry sand running through the fingers.'When Bill Mor falls in love with Rain Carter he discovers a new way of being and a new joy in the world and his

Existentialists and Mystics: Writings on Philosophy and Literature (Murdoch Iris)(Paperback)

Best known as the author of twenty-six novels, Iris Murdoch has also made significant contributions to the fields of ethics and aesthetics. Collected here for the first time in one volume are her most influential literary and philosophical essays. Tracing Murdoch's journey to a modern Platonism,

Unicorn (Murdoch Iris)(Paperback / softback)

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY STEPHEN MEDCALFWhen Marian Taylor takes the post of governess at Gaze castle, remote house on a beautiful but desolate coast, she finds herself confronted with many strange mysteries. What kind of crime or catastrophe in the past still keeps the house under a brooding

Bell (Murdoch Iris)(Paperback / softback)

Discover Murdoch's wonderful writing in this compelling story of a young woman and an unusual religious lay community. A lay community of thoroughly mixed-up people is encamped outside Imber Abbey, home to an enclosed order of

Black Prince (Murdoch Iris)(Paperback / softback)

Finding himself surrounded by predatory friends and relations - his ex-wife, her delinquent brother, a younger, deplorably successful writer, Arnold Baffin, Baffin's restless wife and engaging daughter - Bradley attempts to

Severed Head (Murdoch Iris)(Paperback / softback)

Martin believes he can possess both a beautiful wife and a delightful lover. But when his wife, Antonia, suddenly leaves him for her psychoanalyst, Martin is plunged into an intensive emotional re-education. Then he meets a woman whose demonic splendour at first repels him and later arouses a

Italian Girl (Murdoch Iris)(Paperback / softback)

Edmund has escaped from his family into a lonely life. One by one his relatives reveal their secrets to a reluctant Edmund: illicit affairs, hidden passions, shameful scandals. And the heart of all, there is, as always, the family's loyal servant, the Italian

Iris Murdoch (Rowe Anne)(Pevná vazba)

Iris Murdoch was both a popular and intellectually serious novelist, whose writing life spanned the latter half of the twentieth century. A proudly Anglo-Irish writer who produced twenty-six best-selling novels, she was also a respected philosopher, a theological thinker and an outspoken public

Nice And The Good (Murdoch Iris)(Paperback / softback)

A work of coruscating moral brilliance, The Nice and the Good revolves around a happily married couple, Kate and Octavian, and the friends of all ages attached to their house in Dorset. The resonant sub plot involves murder and black magic in Whitehall, as the novel leads us through stress and

Sea, The Sea (Murdoch Iris)(Paperback / softback)

When Charles Arrowby retires from his glittering career in the London theatre, he buys a remote house on the rocks by the sea. He hopes to escape from his tumultuous love affairs but unexpectedly bumps into his childhood sweetheart and sets his heart on destroying her

Accidental Man (Murdoch Iris)(Paperback / softback)

This is the story of the comic, relentless struggle for survival of Austin Gibson Grey, the accidental man. In this role we meet Dorina, Austin's estranged wife, Mitzi, his alcoholic landlady, and a selection of other women who involve themselves in Austin's fate, with hilarious and appalling

Red and the Green (Murdoch Iris)(Paperback / softback)

As the Easter Rebellion looms, tension mounts in the rain-soaked streets of Dublin. His relentlessly pious mother pursues her own private war with his stepfather, a man sunk in religious speculation and drink. Meanwhile Pat's Protestant soldier cousin, Andrew Chase-White, puzzles out his complex

Philosopher's Pupil (Murdoch Iris)(Paperback / softback)

In the English town of Ennistone, hot springs bubble up from deep beneath the earth. He exerts an almost magical influence over a host of Ennistonians, and especially over George McCaffrey, the Philosopher's old pupil, a demonic man desperate for

Book And The Brotherhood (Murdoch Iris)(Paperback / softback)

It's the midsummer ball at Oxford, and a group of men and women - friends since university days - have gathered under the stars. Included in this group is David Crimond, a genius and fervent Marxist. Years earlier the friends had persuaded David to write a philosophical and political book on their

Contemporary Cinema and the Philosophy of Iris Murdoch (Bolton Lucy)(Paperback)

Opens a dialogue between contemporary film and Iris Murdoch's thinking on art, goodness and existentialism Iris Murdoch was not only one of post-war Britain's most celebrated and prolific novelists - she was also an influential philosopher, whose work was concerned with the question of the good and

The Bell (Murdoch Iris)(Paperback)

A motley assortment of characters seek peace and salvation in this early masterpiece by the Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea, The Sea A lay community of thoroughly mixed-up people is encamped outside Imber Abbey, home of an order of sequestered nuns. A new bell is being installed when